Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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21 (70). If a man commit an Agerepta1, and refuse to atone for it 2, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'He is a Peshôtanu : two hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraosho-karana.'
FARGARD IV.
22 (73). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man commit an Avaoirista, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'Ten stripes with the Aspahê-astra, ten stripes with the Sraoshô-karana;
'On the second Avaoirista, fifteen stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifteen stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.
23 (75). 'On the third, thirty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, thirty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana; 'On the fourth, fifty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifty stripes with the Sraosho-karana;
'On the fifth, seventy stripes with the Aspahêastra, seventy stripes with the Sraoshô-karana;
'On the sixth, ninety stripes with the Aspahêastra, ninety stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
24 (76). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man commit an Avaoirista for the seventh time, without having atoned for the preceding, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: He is a Peshôtanu: two hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
25 (77). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man commit an Avaoirista, and refuse to atone for it, what penalty shall he pay?
1 Even though the Âgerepta has been committed for the first
time.
' Literally, 'and does not undo it.' If he does not offer himself to bear the penalty, and does not perform the Patet (see Introd.)
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